Strangers in the Land Strangers in the Land
Human Cargo and The Rights of Others chronicle the plight of refugees and migrants, revealing how seemingly simple moral positions can assume toxic political form.
Mar 23, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Corey Robin
Brother From Another Planet Brother From Another Planet
If you missed the 1995 CUNY "Question of Identity" conference, the issue of October magazine devoted to it, the "remarkable" essay on the same subject in Diacritics or--even wo...
Mar 23, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
Experimental Art Experimental Art
Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great novels and symphonies of science."
Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Foer
Crowds and Power Crowds and Power
In Death in the Haymarket James Green uses the story of the Haymarket riot to expose the hopes and fears of nineteenth-century America, a nation living on the knife-edge of social ...
Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Steve Fraser
Too Hot for New York Too Hot for New York
My Name Is Rachel Corrie was a big hit in London, but the New York Theatre Workshop backed off from producing the play. Why is it so hard for Americans to have a healthy debate abo...
Mar 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Philip Weiss
Typecast as a Terrorist Typecast as a Terrorist
The detainment of two actors from The Road to Guantánamo reveals a legal apparatus that is no longer able to distinguish between real and invented threats.
Mar 10, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Adam Federman
Consuming Desires Consuming Desires
Thank You for Smoking praises the professional hucksters of the cigarette companies, and Duck Season is a road movie in which the scenery doesn't change.
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Dream Life The Dream Life
In The Power of Movies, Colin McGinn asserts that films are the medium best suited to imitate the workings of the dreaming mind.
Mar 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Gilberto Perez
Will Greenspan Tell the Truth? Will Greenspan Tell the Truth?
A Greenspan memoir will do fine in the marketplace. It is the kind of Important Book daughters buy for father's birthday. In the unlikely event Greenspan tells the truth, it would ...
Mar 8, 2006 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
Life Is Sweet Life Is Sweet
Federico Fellini: His Life And Work effaces nearly everything written about the great Italian director, offering a distinct critical analysis and an absorbing account of his privat...
Mar 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Peter Cowie